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  1. Mercutio

    Merc's Useful Tools of the day

    Silence of the Foxes: Creates a custom Firefox installation including Add-Ins and themes.
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    Corrupt files after network transfer

    rsync doesn't look so silly now!
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    WD 2TB @ 7200 RPM

    Now they're just teasing us.
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    Trouble installing realtek sound drivers

    IIRC there's a cleanup procedure for that. It comes from installing the drivers out of order from a Windows update that enables support for multichannel audio. You have to manually delete files and registry entries so things can install properly.
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    AT&T DSL blocks port 465?

    Not working, even wired directly to the modem without involving his router.
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    Something Random

    Paugie, you've been married a very, very long time. Congratulations. I remember when I was fairly young, my father decorated our house and took the family out to a special meal to commemorate the date that my mother his surname longer than her maiden name. Yes, there wasn't much love between...
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    i5 dropped today

    860. I don't have any more DDR3 at home like I thought I did so I can't build it today. I got a Gigabyte P55-UD5P or it. That machine is going to go at my desk in my bedroom, where it will probably spend a lot of time running VMs and doing documentation work; the machine that's there now has a...
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    System clock loses time like crazy.

    If the machine runs all the time, the battery doesn't get used and loses its ability to hold a charge, I think. Some of my machines do that, too.
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    i5 dropped today

    Well, I wound up in Westmont today on a completely unrelated matter, so a stop at Microcenter has left me $420 poorer. Now I have to decide whether I want Server 03 or 2008 R2 or just plain Windows 7 on this one.
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    WTB: Intel Socket 478 Retail HSF's

    I'm not sure I saw a P4 with a metal retention clip. That's too bad because all the ones I can find are broken. Did P4s do anything right?
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    Something Random

    Birthdays are probably better than the alternative. Hope you got cake. :)
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    Using MS Technet for Win 7 "upgrades"

    Accredited schools can get Academic Alliance subs, which amount to the same access as having an Action Pack.
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    i5 dropped today

    Also, there's a royal.sys based Activation hack for Windows7 already. It works. I tested it.
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    AT&T DSL blocks port 465?

    The whole thing is, the guy has a couple web-based apps that make extensive use of Mailto: links to automate customer management. He's got an @sbcglobal.net webmail address now that he can check through Yahoo (seemingly without POP3 access) but that doesn't let him use Mailto: and it doesn't...
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    AT&T DSL blocks port 465?

    They block 578 also. I tried that before I did anything else. How completely bogus.
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    The donkey raping anime fucks that also have a license to some of the models are trying to get the trailer pulled right now. I don't know if anyone who works for Harmony Gold speaks English, or is in fact not functionally retarded, but I suspect once they realize that there's an actual game...
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    Using MS Technet for Win 7 "upgrades"

    I kind of have access to all of the above. Yes, that does work. And if you want more licenses than they're immediately willing to give you, you can call them and they'll approve you for more. I've never had them NOT approve more licenses. It's very handy. Also, even though you're theoretically...
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    AT&T DSL blocks port 465?

    I can't see any other reason for this, but at a customer site today I found that connections to Google's SMTP servers on port 465 were being denied over AT&T DSL. I could tether my and run the same mail configuration and everything worked just fine, but not through AT&T. I can't see any...
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    Stacked

    If you turn off safesearch you get some nice pictures of Gianna Michaels, who personifies the term rather well.
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    Stacked

    You people are lame.
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    i5 dropped today

    I don't hate you. I just think you're criminally misguided.
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    MP3 player rant

    Supposedly there's a 32GB microSD card someplace out in the world. If that's the case, my phone just got a whole lot more interesting.
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    MP3 player rant

    Rockbox seems to fix a lot of what's wrong with iPods, though it doesn't run on all models.
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    Stacked

    Apropos of nothing, "stacked" is a great thing to type in to Google Image Search with Safesearch off. It's quite... uplifting.
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    3ware 7506-8: The tale of a quirky RAID-5 implementation

    I can't believe you're doing this much work for a six year old RAID controller.
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    WTB: Intel Socket 478 Retail HSF's

    I probably have a few someplace, but I can't be bothered to go look for them. I'm not sure if they're the style you want, anyway.
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    i5 dropped today

    I bought 10 of the Samsung 5400rpm units about a month ago. I still haven't gotten around to putting them in yet, though. I'm fairly tempted to run over to the Westmont Microcenter this weekend for a $220 i7, though. I doubt we'll see them that cheaply again until after xmas.
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    i5 dropped today

    I re-use the hell out of high-end motherboards. If I'm buying a $150+ board, it's probably going to live in three different machines over three years, and in that time there will probably be at least one CPU change for some reason or other. Remember that it's comparatively easy for me to find...
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    That's what Readyboost is supposed to be for in the first place.
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    i5 dropped today

    I sincerely doubt the tri-channel RAM is worthwhile. The cheaper motherboards are quite appealing, but it's still kind of galling that Intel is going to be supporting three CPU interfaces for at least the short term, particularly when they're saying that only one of those sockets is going to be...
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    4-Port Internal Controller

    Having had a couple Syba cards fail in obnoxious ways, that's not a direction I'd be willing to contemplate.
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    i5 dropped today

    We all know dual channel RAM is largely for benchmark wanking, let alone a third channel. I doubt it has much of an impact, either. I do note that releasing the new socket has not impacted pricing on socket 1366 boards. Which is unfortunate, because that's really the one thing that's keeping me...
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    Need an audio mixer compatible with Win 7

    Audacity? I like the Nero Wave Editor interface a little bit better, myself; it's what I use when I teach people to record LPs to CDs, but Audacity is often suggested in guides for doing the same thing.
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    4-Port Internal Controller

    I use this Adaptec controller. The $75 Promise card is flakey under Windows.
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    i5 dropped today

    Intel's new i5/i7 stuff is available now on Newegg. Looks like the new CPUs use another new, incompatible CPU interface, drop the tri-channel memory supprt and have vastly cheaper motherboards. CPU pricing for the new guys looks to be very similar to the current i7s, with $300 and $500 models...
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Nope.
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    My Thinkpads have Intel Turbo memory on them. Windows 7 doesn't want to use them as Readyboost memory, so I have them each formatted as a 1GB drive.
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    Building Petabytes on a budget

    Yup. I have capacity enough for about 24TB with 100% redundancy at the moment. I'm WAY lagging that in terms of actual data I need to store, and I will until I get around to pulling a bunch of my old stuff off tapes.
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    Rsync for Windows (or similar) app suggestions?

    Ghetto method: xcopy /h/i/c/k/e/r/y/d Of course, that's at the file level rather than the block level, but for most purposes that's probably OK. Or if you have proper Windows Servers you can manage replication with dfs.
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    Something Random

    Nothing to say at the moment. I'll see a different doctor on Friday.
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    Something Random

    I saw people make bad decisions involving alcohol while I was growing up, so I choose not to partake.
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    Recommended Budget Mid-Tower Cases (ATX)?

    With or without PSU?
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    Something Random

    I don't drink alcohol. At some point I might have some at a special occasion but I'm sure it won't be beer.
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    Low profile TV tuner

    A couple Newegg reviewers comment that they did get low profile brackets with their cards.
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    Something Random

    Hot Dogs are part of the baseball game experience, right? I'll probably buy 'em at Wrigley. Where they'll be $8 apiece or something... But yeah there was official confirmation that I should be thinking of this whole outing as a "date", which is kind of a big deal for me even if it's only a...
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    HD-HTPC, on the road but nowhere near there.

    Managing audio sources in post-XP Windows is a royal pain in the ass. I'll probably buy one of those AuzenTech cards as soon as I get around to buying a Receiver with support for HDMI.
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    Notebook Computers

    It might be an artificial differentiation of the products, but even that's kind of silly given the marketing for Thinkpads. I worked on the insides of a new Dell E5500 today. I was genuinely impressed with how easy it was to swap out a noisy fan. There is one screw holding down a large access...
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    WD 2TB @ 7200 RPM

    My work here is done.
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    Flash Tests

    I've seen people on Slashdot claiming to have CF-based Linux appliances that have been running for four and five years without issue. Completely anecdotal, but if that's the case then the wear leveling problems might have been fixed for some time.
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    Something Random

    There are express trains but only during rush hour and, like I said, I've never been on the EL. It might be an adventure all its own, for all I know. I'd rather take the train than deal with the headache of parking but on the other hand, the South Shore schedule can be a little goofy at times...
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